Confucius, the great thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in the late Spring and Autumn Period, was called "Wensheng" by later generations. During his lifetime, Confucius was revered as the "Saint of Heaven" and "Heavenly Muduo", and was revered by later rulers as the Sage of Kong, the Most Holy, the Most Holy Master, the Most Holy Master of Dacheng the Most Holy Wenxuan, and the Master of All Ages. His ideas have had a profound impact on China and the world, and his people are listed as the first of the "world's top ten cultural celebrities".
Mencius, a famous philosopher, thinker, politician, educator and one of the representative figures of the Confucian school in the Warring States period, was second only to Confucius in status, and was called "Confucius and Mengmeng" with Confucius.
He preached "benevolent government" and was the first to put forward the idea of "the people are noble and the king is light". Han Yu's "Original Tao" lists Mencius as a figure who inherited Confucius's "Dao system" from pre-Qin Confucianism, and the Yuan Dynasty posthumously named Mencius "Ya Sheng Gong Shu Chen" and honored him as "Ya Sheng".
Sun Wu was a famous military figure and politician during the Spring and Autumn Period. Sun Tzu's Art of War occupies an extremely important position in the history of military history, military scholarship and philosophical thought in China and even the world, and is widely used in the fields of politics, economy, military, culture and philosophy. He was later revered as "Soldier Saint".
Guan Yu, a famous general at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, followed Liu Bei around in the early days, killed Yuan Shao's general Yan Liang at BaimaPo, and was known as a ten thousand enemies along with Zhang Fei. It is revered by posterity as "Martial Saint".
Sima Qian, historian and essayist of the Western Han Dynasty. With his historical knowledge of "investigating the time of heaven and man, through the changes of ancient and modern times, into the words of a family", he created China's first general history of the jichuan style, "Shiji".
It is widely regarded as a model of Chinese history books and the first of the "Twenty-Four Histories", and Sima Qian is also revered by later generations as Shi Sheng, Tai Shi Gong, and the father of history.
Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was famous for writing the great work "On Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases". The dialectical principle it establishes is the basic principle of TCM clinical practice and the soul of TCM.
Therefore, it has become an important medical book that everyone who practices medicine in later generations must read, and Zhang Zhongjing has also been called "medical saint" by posterity because of his outstanding contributions to medicine.
Du Fu, the great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, was jointly known as "Li Du" with Li Bai. Du Fu created masterpieces such as "Ascending to the Heights", "Spring Hope", "Northern Expedition", and "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells".
Because Du Fu's influence on classical Chinese poetry is very far-reaching, he is called "Shisheng" by posterity, and his poems are called "Poetic History".
Du Kang, the ruler of the Xia Dynasty, was a Taoist. Du Kang is the "ancestor of winemaking" in ancient Chinese legends, and the Han "Commentaries on the Interpretation of Texts" says: "Du Kang began to make wine." Also known as Shao Kang, the ruler of the Xia Dynasty, a Taoist celebrity. ”
Because Du Kang was good at winemaking, later generations respected Du Kang as a "wine saint", and the wine industry regarded Du Kang as his grandfather. Later generations often borrowed "Du Kang" to refer to wine.